Thanks to the magic of timezones, I’m one of those people who can look back at many of you from here in 2010. Did you know it’s been nine years since we attempted that fateful mission to Jupiter? Those were the days.

Sculpture: OMG LOL / Eyebeam Art + Technology Center Open Studios: Fall 2009

Image description: the above image is of a thick hardback dictionary, open to a page in the ‘D’ section. The stenciled letters ‘OMG LOL’ have been punched out of the middle of facing pages, to a depth of a considerable number of pages.

The image is by See-ming Lee æŽæ€æ˜Ž on Flickr, and used under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike.

This is an open thread for any topic, but if you want some January 1-based topics of conversation, how about:

• if you celebrated a gifting holiday recently, do you have any new toys?
• did you have a geeky rather than traditional celebration of any kind? (for any value of ‘geeky’ and ‘traditional’, assuming they’re in fact different for you!)
• what are your geeky resolutions for 2010?
• what did you learn about geekdom and/or feminism in 2009?